Initializing the project

We are going to use the same AWS instance that we deployed and configured in the previous section for Jenkins, as a development environment. Therefore, we need to have nodejs and npm installed on our instance. If you haven't installed these yet, refer to the instructions in Chapter 2, Deploying Your First Web Application:

$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/EffectiveDevOpsAWS.pem ec2-user@18.208.183.35$ node –v$ npm –v 

The output of running the preceding command is as follows:

Our first step will be to clone the helloworld GitHub repository that we created in the preceding section:

$ git clone https://github.com/<your_github_organization>/helloworld.git ...

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